Reading in Christian Communities

The essays in this book honor and extend the work of Rowan A. Greer, Walter H. Gray Professor Emeritus of Anglican Studies at Yale University Divinity School, by exploring the connections between textual interpretation and the formation of religious identity. A diverse and prestigious group of biblical scholars, church historians, and theologians study the function that scripture plays in the creation and maintenance of faith communities and the ways that communal locations in turn shape the interpretation of scripture.

The first part of the book examines specific examples of ancient biblical interpretation as a means of creating, maintaining, and challenging Christian identity in the pluralistic ancient world. Authors study acts of interpretation in the Martyrdom of Polycarp, the Physiologus, Gnostic literature, the fifth-century mosaic of the Church of Hosios David in Thessaloniki, and in the works of Irenaeus, Origen, Augustine, John Chrysostom, and Porphyry of Tyre. Reading scripture emerges as a strategy for locating the reader and his or her community w

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Work of Rowan A. Greer: An Appreciation	p. 14
Interpretive Locations
"To Sojourn" or "To Dwell"?: Scripture and Identity in the Martyrdom of Polycarp	p. 29
The Seed of Seth at the Flood: Biblical Interpretation and Gnostic Theological Reflection	p. 41
The Insufficiency of Scripture: Adversus haereses 2 and the Role of Scripture in Irenaeus's Anti-Gnostic Polemic	p. 63
Zoological Marvel and Exegetical Method in Origen and the Physiologus	p. 80
Porphyry of Tyre's Biblical Criticism: A Historical and Theological Appraisal	p. 90
Paradoxes of Now and Not Yet: The Separation between the Church and the Kingdom in John Chrysostom, Theodore, and Augustine	p. 106
Vision of God and Scripture Interpretation in a Fifth-Century Mosaic	p. 124
Locating Interpreters
Gender Refusers in the Early Christian Mission: Gal 3:28 as an Interpretation of Gen 1:27b	p. 149
Prolegomena to a Ritual/Liturgical Reading of the Gospel of Mark	p. 174
The Transfiguration of Christ: The Transformation of the Church	p. 188
Enduring, or, How Rowan Greer Taught Me to Read	p. 199
Works of Rowan A. Greer	p. 215
Contributors	p. 219
Index	p. 221
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